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Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her.

Tra.

Nay, then ’tis time to stir him from his trance.

I pray, awake, sir; if you love the maid,

Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. Thus it stands:

Her elder sister is so curst and shrewd

That till the father rid his hands of her,

Master, your love must live a maid at home,

And therefore has he closely mew’d her up,

Because she will not be annoy’d with suitors.

Luc.

Ah, Tranio, what a cruel father’s he?

But art thou not advis’d, he took some care

To get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her?

Tra.

Ay, marry, am I, sir; and now ’tis plotted.

Luc.

I have it, Tranio.

Tra.

Master, for my hand,

Both our inventions meet and jump in one.

Luc.

Tell me thine first.

Tra.

You will be schoolmaster,

And undertake the teaching of the maid:

That’s your device.

Luc.

It is; may it be done?

Tra.

Not possible; for who shall bear your part,

And be in Padua here Vincentio’s son,

Keep house and ply his book, welcome his friends,

Visit his countrymen, and banquet them?